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He fastened the traces with trembling fingers. "What in the world has struck you?" shouted Ellis. "Ain't you goin' to have that shoe fixed? He can't travel that way. Seth! Seth Atkins! . . . By time, he IS crazy!" Seth did not deny the charge. Climbing into the wagon, he took up the reins. "Are you sure and sartin' 'twas the Denboro road they took?" he demanded. "Who took?
"Workin' you too hard at the start, are we?" "No," I answered, curtly. "Then what is the matter?" "Why, nothing, unless it is that everyone I meet seems to take such a great interest in my being here. I believe all of Denboro talks of nothing else." "Not much else, I shouldn't wonder. But that's to be expected, ain't it? Everybody's glad you're makin' good." "Humph!
The Consolidated Pacific is wise to the situation. 'Wise' is slang, isn't it? It used to be at college." "It is yet, even in Denboro. Humph! let me think. 'Sure big advance opening. I suppose that means the market will open with Louisville and Transcontinental at a higher figure and that the price is sure to advance during the day." "Yes. Yes, it must mean that. But why should Mr.
Seemed to be headin' for Denboro if they kept on as they started. . . . Seth Atkins, have you turned loony?" Seth did not answer. With a leap he landed at Joshua's head, unhooked the halter, and ran out of the shop leading the horse. The astonished blacksmith followed as far as the door. Seth was backing the animal into his wagon, which stood beneath the shed.
There is such a thing as being too cordial and good-natured; and he was so very friendly on short acquaintance. "I understand," he said. "I have heard about you, Mr. Paine. This, however, is a different matter. We are not hogs, Mr. Paine, but business men. If our plans go through, Denboro will be grateful to us and to you." "IF they go through? I thought you were certain of their going through."
This was the attorney's first visit to Cape Cod, and he had already vowed devoutly that it should be his last. He turned a chilling shoulder to the trio opposite and again consulted the time-table. Denboro was the next station; then thank the Lord South Denboro, his destination. Conversation across the aisle was brisk, and its subjects were many and varied. Mr.
In the distance, beyond the grove, I could hear the carpenters' hammers on the roof of the big Atwater mansion, which was now the property of James Colton, the New York millionaire, whose rumored coming to Denboro to live had filled the columns of the country weekly for three months.
He succeeded after a while, and announced that he had not enjoyed anything as much since arriving in Denboro. His daughter also seemed to be enjoying herself. She was quite as good a fisher as her father, and, when the sport was over, and we reeled in our lines preparatory to starting for home, rallied him not a little at having been the least successful of the party.
A man may know, in his heart, that he is no good and still resent having others say that he is, particularly when they say that he and Luther Rogers are birds of a feather. I didn't care for Dean's good opinion; of course I didn't! Nor for that of any one else in Denboro, my mother excepted. But Dean and the rest should keep their opinions to themselves, confound them!
To my surprise there was a letter in it; I could see it through the glass of the box door. Lute had, as I knew, got the mail the previous evening and the morning's mail had not yet arrived. Therefore this letter must have been written by some one in Denboro and posted late the night before or early that morning.
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